Contributions of pesticide use to urban background concentrations of arsenic in Denver, Colorado, U.S.A

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 127-139

  Folkes, David J ^a   Kuehster, Theodore E ^a   Litle, Robert A ^b  

^a EnviroGroup Limited   (United States)

^b Asarco   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic; Herbicides; Speciation; Stratified

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035373691     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enfo.2001.0048     Document Type: Article

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